To understand the phenomenology of piss is to understand the ephemerality of life: to be a repository but also therefore, a conduit. A metamorphosis in the passing transference of energy and spirit. In Warhol’s Oxidation portrait of Basquiat [PLATE XX] we witness the alchemical relationship in the work of the artist / flaneur / ragpicker – in the act of transubstantiation in elevating ‘detritus’ (quite literally the waste) to a work of art where the warm passing of the Dionysian fluids enables a chemical reaction: the golden shower crowning the radiant child in Apollonian goldeness.
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